Mysterious medieval warrior found in Viking graveyard wasn't actually a Viking

Fox News ^ | 07/25/2019 | Chris Ciaccia |

[BenLurkin]

A mysterious female warrior discovered in a Viking grave in Denmark was originally thought to be a Viking. But now, researchers have made a surprising discovery about this fierce warrior who died more than 1,000 years ago — she wasn't actually a Viking.

According to researchers at Poland's Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the woman was likely Slavic, emanating from a region in Eastern Europe that is now present-day Poland.

Dr. Gardeła added that the revelation is not all that surprising. "During the Middle Ages, this island was a melting pot of Slavic and Scandinavian elements."

Although the woman's grave was the only one to have a weapon, an axe, researchers did find an Arab coin from the 10th century, adding further proof of its age.

Despite the indication the woman was likely a warrior, it's unclear how she died.

[BenLurkin]

ping

https://www.slavorum.org/women-warriors-in-slavic-and-scytho-sarmatian-culture/

[z3n]

[BenLurkin]

First thing I thought of when I saw the headline.

[Magnum44]

A mysterious female warrior discovered in a Viking grave...

Hmm. Female Thor? Sounds like the back story to a bad Marvel movie

But possibly good eye candy?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Shouldn’t that be “Thoress”? Certainly not “Ms. Thor.”

[Michael.SF.]

You know she had to be a hottie, my Viking ancestors never brought back the ugly ones.

[Red Badger]

The movie was a flop, but I loved it!.........😁

[mosesdapoet]

Because of technical limitations I have don’t use links. Because of that the island where this grave site is not identified. But this person might be from the Kashube slavic group one of the of three that compose today’s Poland who settled along the Baltic coast and the Pomeranian peninsula.

[BenLurkin]

Thorette

[jarwulf]

whats the evidence that she’s some hardened warrior? That there was an axe in the grave?

[redangus]

How do they know she didn’t identify as a man? Maybe she was woman in biology only.

[null and void]

You’ve waisted an opportunity for a perfectly good pun.

Should be Thorax...

[lee martell]

Didn’t the Vikings have a custom of burying or sacrificing (funeral pyre) the warriors’ wife once he was dead?
Maybe that’s what happened here. Notice, they saw no apparent injuries that would have caused her death.

[Tax-chick]

“Viking” is not a race or ethnicity: it’s an occupation.

[BenLurkin]

It could mean her job was chopping firewood. For the kitchen. For baking cookies.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...DANG IT! How did I miss that one? Nicely played!

It was so obvious, too!

[null and void]

Thorhammer was taken...

[Ancesthntr]

Not a Viking warrior...just a tiny little woman with skinny little arms, thinking that she’s the Mighty Thor.

[Deaf Smith]

"That there was an axe in the grave"

She may have been in the service/trades and still had one more axe to grind before her departure.